Child&#39;s seat.



Patented oct. 2|, |902.A

(No Model.)

, wilma/soda UNITED STATES JOI-IN CLAFLIN, OF LESLIE, MICHIGAN.

CHILDS ISEA-r.

v#SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 711,824, datedOctober 21, 1902.

Application filedMay 12, 1902. Serial No. 106,963. (No model.)

To all whom, t party concern:

Be it known thatI, JOHN CLAFLIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Leslie, in the county of Ingham and State of Michigamhaveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in (lhildrens Seats, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

Myinvention is a childs scat so constructed that it may be secured tothe back of an ordinary chair in such way that the child occupying theseat will be supported at the proper height relative to a table anddirectly above the chair-seat.

'It consists of novel means for securing the seat to the chair and alsoof a novel construction of the seat itself, which is constructed of aplurality of parts secured together by hinges or other joints in suchway that when the seat is not in use the parts may be turned out, so asto occupy a common plane, such arrangement permitting the seat to beplaced against the wall or in any other position where it will occupybut little space.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of one formof my invention applied to a chair. Fig. 2 represents the seat shown inFig. l extended, the parts being in the position they occupy when it isdesired to store or put away the seat. Fig. 3 is a rear View of anotherand for some reasons the preferred form of my invention. Fig. 4 is aside view of the form of my invention shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a Viewof the supporting-hooks employed in the form of invention shown in Figs.3 and 4 detached. Fig. 6 is a section on the line a; 0c, Fig. 4, showingthe retaining means for the supporting-hooks.

In the drawings, A represents the chair, which is of any usual orpreferred form of construction. The form of chair which is best adaptedfor use in connection with my invention is one in which the uppercross-piece ct of the back is substantially horizontal. The seatcomprises three parts, which are hinged together--the bottom piece 2,upon which the child sits, and the two side pieces 3 3. These are unitedby hinges 4 or equivalent means of connection, so applied as to permitthe side pieces to be turned up substantially at right angles to thebottom when the chair is to be used, as indicated in Fig. 1, and to beturned into the position indicated in Fig. 2 when the seat is not inuse-that is, with the side pieceslaterally extended beyond the ends ofthe bottom piece and in substantially a common plane therewith. When theseat is not in use, the parts may be thus arranged in order to permitthe seat to be placed against vthe wall or in any contracting space,thus enabling it to be stored or pnt out of sight. The upper end of eachside piece is provided with means for attachingit to a cross-piece of achair-back. In Figs. l and 2 the side pieces are represented as beingformed with hooks, which are integral therewith and are adapted to catchover the cross-bars a of the chairback. I prefer, however, that theattaching means should be of such nature as to permit a verticaladjustment of the seat in order that it may accommodate children ofAdifferent sizes, and such a construction is represented in Figs. 3, 4,and 5.

@represents a rod preferably of metal and provided at its end with ahook 5, which is adapted to engage with the chair-back, and its lowerend constructed so as to engage with one of the side pieces of the seat.To permit such engagement, I prefer to bend the lower end of the rod atright angles to the main body, preferably as indicated at 7, and thisend portion of the rod is adapted to enter apertures or recesses 8 inthe edge of the side pieces of the seat, there being a sufficient numberof these apertures to permit of the necessary adjustment of the seat.Iprefer that the rear edge of the seat should be grooved or channeled,so that the rod 6 when in use is seated in this channel and will comeabout flush with the rear edge of the side piece. The rod is held inposition by suitable retaining means, such as the hooks and guides 9 andl0. Those parts of the seat which engage with the chair maybe providedwith means which will prevent rubbing or marring of the chair when theseat is applied and in use.

Among the advantages incident to my invention the following may bementioned: A seat such as described possesses all of the advantages ofthe ordinary childs high chair, while in addition thereto the chairaffords a broader, heavier, and more secure base, thus rendering littledanger of the seat being ICD turned over by the child. The seat of thechair affords a rest for the feet of the child. By constructing theseveral parts in the manner indicated it is possible to store or placethe seat out of the way when not in use, as when opened out, as in Fig.2, it occupies but little space, and by employing the adjustablesupporting means which has been described the chair may be so adjustedas to exactly suit the requirements of a child at the different stagesof its growth.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

1. A childs seat comprising a bottom piece and two side pieces hingedtogether and arranged to permit the side pieces to be turned atsubstantially right angles with the bottom when in use, and to belaterally extended beyond the ends of the bottom and in substantially acommon plane therewith when not in use, said side pieceshavingsnspension means, substantially as set forth.

2. A childs seat adapted to be suspended from the back of an ordinaryChair, comprising a bottom piece and two side pieces, such pieces beinghinged together and arranged to have the side pieces turned down orlaterally extended beyond the ends of the bottom and in substantially acommon plane therewith when the seat is not -in use, and suspendingmeans at the upper rear portions of the side pieces, substantially asset forth.

3. The herein-described ehilds seat, comprising the bottom piece 2 andthe two side pieces 3 3 hinged thereto, the rear edges of the sidepieces having a series of perforations 8, in combination with theadjustable snpporting-rods 6 formed at their upper ends with hooks andtheir lower ends being bent to adapt them to enter the saidperforations, and means for holding the rods with their bent ends in thesaid perorations, substantially as set forth.

4. A seat consisting of the combination of abottom piece, foldable sidepieces hinged one at each side of the bottom piece, and suspension means'on said side pieces and foldable therewith acting when in use tosustain the bottom piece and keep the side pieces at substantially rightangles to the bottom piece.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN CLAFLIN.

iVitnesses:

CHAs. I-I; SMITH, MAUD R. ROGERS.

